Moving around in the BDV views.
Action |
Key |
View. |
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Move in X & Y. |
Right-click and Drag .
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Move in Z. |
Mouse-wheel . Press and hold Shift to move faster, Control to move slower.
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Align with XY plane |
Shift Z
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Align with YZ plane |
Shift X
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Align with XZ plane |
Shift C or Shift A . For these 3 shortcuts, the view will rotate around the mouse position on the BDV.
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Zoom / Unzoom. |
Control + Shift + Mouse-wheel or Command + Mouse-wheel . The view will zoom and unzoom around the mouse location.
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Time-points. |
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Next time-point. |
] or M
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Previous time-point. |
[ or N
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Bookmarks. |
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Store a bookmark. |
Shift B then press any key to store a bookmark with this key as label. A bookmark stores the position, zoom and orientation in the view but not the time-point. Bookmarks are saved in display settings file.
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Recall a bookmark. |
Press B then the key of the bookmark. |
Recall a bookmark orientation. |
Press O then the key of the bookmark. Only the orientation of the bookmark will be restored. |
Image display. |
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Select source 1, 2 … |
Press 1 / 2 … |
Toggle fused mode. |
Press F . In fused mode, several sources are overlaid. Press Shift + 1 / Shift + 2 … to add / remove the source to the view. In single-source mode, only one source is shown. |
Save / load display settings. |
F11 / F12 . This will create a XYZ_settings.xml file in which the display settings and bookmarks will be saved.
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Before mid-2023, the brightness and source visibility dialogs were configured in dialogs which visibility were toggled with the F
and F6
shortcuts respectively. With the new version of BDV, they are configured with a side-pane in a BDV window that can be toggled by clicking on a button made visible when the mouse hovers over the right part of the window:
